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Graphic designer Lee Binding discusses the meticulous efforts that went into the packaging for the new Season 12 box set.

Interview by MARK WRIGHT

“There has to be effort and love visible,” says graphic designer Lee Binding.

Stages in the evolution of the Doctor Who DVDs, including The Five Doctors (released in 1999), The Robots of Death (2000) and The Underwater Menace (2015).

Although The Five Doctors marked Doctor Who’s first tentative steps onto DVD in November 1999, it was The Robots of Death, released a year later, that set the template for Doctor Who’s home-media branding. This second DVD release established the TARDIS-roundels cover design that provided a distinctive look for the range that endured up until The Underwater Menace in 2015.

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